Michael Autumn

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Michael Autumn (Born London, January, 1962) is an English contemporary artist and photographer.

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[edit] Life

Michael Autumn is completely self-taught. During his teens he felt school couldn't offer him anything, and so worked on it out of school - in his preferred medium - oils. He felt that art college had nothing to offer him - he was doing the art he wanted to, and he was much more academically inclined (he did art in his spare time). He read philosophy, psychology, and ecomonics at LSE, and his working life has included commercial art and photography, and computer systems design and development. He has always separated his personal, 'real', art (which he has pursued all his adult life) from his commercial work, and he only started exhibiting and selling his 'real' work in 2006. Since digital photography and computing came together to a standard he was satisfied with, circa 2000, he has kept at the forefront of technical and creative possibilities - being able to finance his striving for perfection through his lucrative computing company. Quality and depth of vision are his hallmark. In 2005 he gave up a six digit salary and comfortable computing career to fully explore his love of creating art and photography. His images are both stunningly beautiful and deceptively cerebral. With 20-30 years experience in art, photography and advanced computing, there are few people who are so well placed to explore digital art. He is very articulate and driven to redress the wilderness he feels contemporary art has drifted into.

[edit] Career

He is unusual in that he has not tried to work his way up in the art and photographic art worlds: instead he held off, developed his style and standards to a point where he felt he was producing some of the best work around; and then, and only then, in his mid forties, did he go public. In his first attempt to exhibit at the Royal Academy of Art Summer Exhibition, London, in 2006 his Depth Of Tulip Field (a digital art print) was selected. In an otherwise very conventional art institution, it was hung in Gallery X (ten) - a room devoted to contemporary art - alongside work by Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, Grason Perry - to name a few of the best known contemporary artists.

[edit] Art Works

His works include:

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[edit] Philosophy

Autumn is very disdainful of much modern art. In his essay What Is Art? he writes: "... If we say art doesn't have to be made, or if it is, then it doesn't have to be made by the artist him or herself, then 'anything' is art and 'everything' is art. In musical terms this would mean that any sound, including 'no' sound, is music. An outcome of such a loose definition of art (or music) is that anyone can lay claim to anything as art - even if 'someone else' made it! Moreover, they can claim it as 'their' art! So we are all artists and everything is art. For reasons that are beyond me, some people 'don't' think this is absurd! Some gallery and museum curators seem to think this definition of art is not only acceptable but that this sort of ‘art’ is superior to what may be called 'common sense' art. Art for them, it seems, must be new: it doesn't matter what it is, as long as it has not being done before or doesn't look like anything that has gone before. That sounds like a perfect definition for the word ‘new’, but do we want to confuse this with the word ‘art’...? Some people seem to think that being absurd or shocking is what art is all about. I think the art world is confused and in disarray. When you can walk into an art gallery like Tate Modern, London, and literally not know what is meant to be art and what is just normal reality - like chairs, bins, ladders, scaffolding, fire extinguishers, a room being decorated - then the purpose of going to a gallery in the first place gets lost. It's a giggle. It's a game that unelected people are playing at our expense. Gallery curators spending tax-payers money on this drivel need to be brought to account."

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